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 648. HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY John H. Rich, who is a leader in the pervasive passion for civic improvement. Further extension of this parkway is planned. The Colvill park, the old homestead and residence of Col. Wm. Colvill, the hero of Gettysburg, on the river front in East Red Wing, has been purchased and made a very popular picnic ground by the untiring efforts of the Colvill Park Association, an organi- zation of ladies of the city who are actively interested in the general welfare. Mrs. D. M. Xeill is president of this association. Notable as Red Wing is for its business enterprise and love of the beautiful, its people recognize that there must be symmetry in community proportions as well as in all other growth if sub- stantial Miid worthy progress is to be attained. They have nol forgotten the intellectual and spiritual forces, which are more subtle lint, nevertheless, more potenl in permanent upbuilding than the things which appeal to eye and ear. Here sight and insight, "the seen and the unseen," are rounding into form the plastic forces a1 their command, and both are emphasized. Educationally, in facilities and in progressiveness as well, Ke<l Winy siands foremost among the cities of the state. Its pub- lic schools are noted for their excellence and the advanced posi- tion they have taken. Its high school building cost $40,000 and its curriculum includes not only the usual literary, classical and scientific courses, hut also normal, commercial, manual training, domestic science and agricultural courses. It was one of the first ten towns of the state to inaugurate a complete agricultural course. The school property already includes a school farm of seven acres where several hundred hoys and girls during the past summer planted, cultivated and raised school gardens success- fully. A new building to he devoted to manual training and domestic science, with a large gymnasium, is now being erected adjacent to the high school at a cost, when equipped, of not less than $50,- 000. With a corps of a dozen teachers in the high school and thirty-four more in the grades, under the progressive leadership of Superintendent J. L. Siloconale, the 1,500 school children are having rare advantages in the acquirement of knowledge which shall fit hand, head and heart to do their full share of the world's work. Here are situated two schools of higher education, each excel- lent in its way, each sustaining a growing reputation and a widen- ing influence. The Red AVing Seminary, for young men. carried on by the Norwegian Lutheran Synod, has academic, collegiate and theological departments, and its graduates each year go out to honor and make better the world by useful lives of service. The Lutheran Ladies' Seminary is an institution for girls and its' success is attested in the constant expansion of a very fine plant.